Charlise Mutten’s stepfather is a convicted major drug offender who was arrested for a huge amount of drugs six years ago and is currently serving parole in the community.

As the search for Charlise, nine approaches its sixth day, Justin Laurens Stein, 31, and his fiancée Kallista Mutten, Charlise’s mother, are supporting police.

Last Thursday, Charlise was last seen at Wildenstein, a vast wedding estate owned by Stein’s rich family in Mount Wilson, in the Blue Mountains.

Justin Stein Family: Stein Family MT Wilson

Stein was sentenced to six and a half years in prison in 2017 for possessing a marketable quantity of a border prohibited narcotic the previous year, according to the Daily Mail Australia.

He was arrested around the same time Charlise’s mother was sentenced to three years in prison with a two-year non-parole period for reckless driving resulting in death while high on methamphetamines.

After serving a minimum term of three years and nine months, he became eligible for parole on December 7, 2019.

He was released from custody in November 2020, according to the Daily Mail Australia, and he and Ms. Mutten were engaged by December 2020.

Stein’s ex-girlfriend confirmed that he had recently been released from prison and was unemployed, living in a Leichhardt flat owned by his mother.

Stein’s sentence will be completed in September of this year.

Ms Mutten, on the other hand, is a former ice addict who was sentenced to two years in prison for killing her 53-year-old companion Karen ‘Kaz’ Bunch after driving off the road and into the Tweed River while high on methamphetamine.

On November 24, 2017, she was sentenced to two years in prison at Lismore Court for hazardous driving resulting in death and driving with an illicit substance in her system.

Despite entering into a rehabilitation facility after the crash, Ms. Mutten returned to ice use and was evicted from a clinic in Logan, Queensland, after threatening a fellow resident with violence, according to the court.

Ms Mutten is not still using drugs, according to the Daily Mail Australia.

On Thursday, Charlise vanished when the pair was at the Wildenstein wedding estate.

The large venue is owned by Stein’s family, however, it’s unclear who else was present at the time Charlise vanished.

Stein, a former steel and timber worker from a well-to-do family, is said to divide his time between his inner-city house and the Mt Wilson venue, which his father James purchased in 1989.

He owns the company Magix Steel and Timber and goes by the internet handle ‘Magix Man’ or ‘Magic Man.’

He shared a photo of tattooed hands with the words ‘Magic’ on the right fist and ‘Man’ on the left, inscribed with dollar bills and skull-and-bones motifs.

Stein and Charlise’s mother did not report her missing until Friday morning when he drove his red ute to the Penrith police station to talk with officers.

That ute is now the subject of a police inquiry, with officers scouring CCTV footage to track the vehicle’s movements.

Mr. Stein’s vehicle’s movements are being reviewed on the day as police check every angle, according to the Daily Mail Australia. This does not imply that he had anything to do with Charlise’s abduction.

On day five of the search on Tuesday, a tiny group of emergency services workers, whose numbers had been decimated by a Covid epidemic among volunteers, were warned that the nine-year-old would be ‘lethargic’ and stationary.’

‘It’s the fifth day. A police officer warned the Rural Fire Service and SES searchers, “She’s not going to be mobile.”

Charlise would require water from a ‘bottle, puddle, or dam,’ according to the officer.

‘Unfortunately, we don’t have apparel,’ he couldn’t give them a description of what she might be wearing. We have no idea what she’s wearing.’

When Charlise was last seen, she was said to be dressed in a pink blouse, black knee-length skirt, and pink Nike thongs, but neither Ms. Mutten nor her fiance has been able to confirm this.

Parts of the search area were ‘inhospitable,’ according to NSW RFS Commander Peter Bennett, which was exacerbated by bad weather that hampered investigators on Monday.

‘It’s a rather dense scrub,’ he explained. ‘It’s exhausting to stand in line through that.’

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1800 333 000.